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 Above you see a GUI preview of the planned WinSView toolkit - it's
 still in alpha stadium while being under heavy development and thus
 not available yet - but this way you may get a first impression of
 what it is about.

 Development takes place on two levels:

  1. The underlying C++ class library for image handling (loading, saving)
  2. The program surface (GUI) in form of a MFC 4.1-based design

 Both are developed using Watcom C/C++ - for the class library part and for
 its testing we make use of the Watcom C/C++ V11 ability to develop 32 bit
 software for the Win9x/NT character mode (DOS box), and for the GUI
 part BlueSky's Visual Programmer is utilized.

 Currently the following C++ classes for loading/saving images
 have been done:

    - BMP                  load (1) save (1)
    - C64 (Koala, Doodle)  load (1)
    - GIF (87a/89a)        load (2) save (2)  (* may not be released)
    - IFF-ILBM             load (1) save (1)
    - PCX                  load (1) save (1)
    - PNM (PBM,PGM,PPM)    load (3) save (1)

 So, we already can load 9 different file formats and save 6!


 The design of the C++ classes is completely platform-independent
 (e.g. regarding endianess) and suitable to be ported for a
 wide range of operating systems, e.g. Linux, BeOS or QNX.


 A small, related subset of WinSView's functionality already has been
 implemented in form of WinIFF, a character mode tool, that has been
 designed to allow people to move their old Amiga IFF-ILBM over to
 their PC.

 As a side-effect the current version of "WinIFF" actually became
 "(T)WinIFF" - the archive includes a PC AND Amiga version, built
 from the same source tree. A real twin-platform product ;-)

 (T)WinIFF is Shareware. This is not a sales offer, so just follow
 the download link below, and read the documenation for further
 information.

 As already stated, it's designed to allow former Amiga owners
 (who now have a PC) or people that have to exhange data between
 both systems, to easily convert their IFF-ILBM graphics with
 1..8 or 24 Bit, as well as HAM6 and HAM8, to Windows Bitmap (BMP)
 graphics with either 1, 4, 8 or 24 bit colordepth. HAM conversion
 always will result in a 24 bit BMP. Please note, that 24 bit
 and HAM conversion only are possible in the registered version...

Regnet - Register via credit card !

 Simply download it and you'll see ! (ca. 40K)

 16.1.98:  uploaded V1.00 of TWinIFF

 17.1.98:  uploaded V1.01 of TWinIFF

 15.6.98:  fully restarted development on the class libraries
           after some months mainly spent on Amiga PPC software

 7.7.98:   development progresses quickly; please excuse,
           that updates of this site may not appear very
           often, as long as there are no final results.

           Yet a core of C++ classes has been defined
           and some loader/saver modules were ported
           successfully. At the end, there will be truly
           platform indpendent loader/saver modules,
           suitable for any destination platform (not
           just Windows).

           The current TWinIFF is a side-branch, which
           may profit from the new developments later on,
           but itself isn't yet based on it.

 19.9.98:  uploaded V1.02 of TWinIFF

 28.11.98: the core parts of the new WinSView GUI have been implemented
           using the Visual Programmer and MFC 4.1 functionality

 29.11.98: fixed TWiff download link (FTP instead of HTTP)

 8.12.98:  updated WinSView GUI preview

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